When is a good Photo op?

Holy mother of all things saintly!
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I have been very busy scanning in all of our family's negatives. I mean, heck, I volunteered.
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Who knew my mom took thousands of pictures even before it was cool to do so?
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The box of negatives is humongostrous!

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See???

Here's the thing. All the negatives from the 70's and most of the 80's are on either a 110 mm or a 26 mm film strip. My scanner did not come with a negative holder that fits those sizes. So I had to fashion my own.
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This is the 35 mm holder that came with the scanner.

This is another holder for something else...like slides or something...that also came with the scanner.
My homemade thingymabobbers! I traced the negatives as well as the holder size then cut out a matching piece out of card stock. Then I used a good ole fashioned Sharpie to make it black. The scanner seems to only read the negatives when they are surrounded by black.

Hey...it fits! Who knew?

These are a few of the pains in my neck negatives causing ALL the problems which are giving me no problems at all.

If it's been a while since you've seen a negative...(I know, we're all spoiled rotten with our digital cameras)...here is a regular 35 mm negative strip.

This is what comes up on my screen for the scanning process. I scan everything into photoshop. That way it's all there for fixing and cropping and all the lovely things I do before saving it to my computer.

After it's been scanned in it looks pretty rough. I first turn the photo so it's upright. Then I crop it back to it's normal size. I do an auto level. And lastly, I sometimes use the bandaid tool on it. Trust me! 30+ year old negatives are sometimes not lookin' so hot! Some of these need lots of work.

After I worked it up a bit...not too much, of course. Gotta leave some room for improvement.The picture is now saved to my computer! This is Cookie by the way. Cute little Pomeranian(sp?).

Okay
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So, all that just to say...
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OMG...look what I found!
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It's just not right!
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My mom really had a thing for nakey pics. I mean, when we were babies...even toddlers it was kinda cute.
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Who in their ever loving mind stops a shower in progress to take a nakey pic of 2 not so little girls?
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MY MOM!!!
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That's who!
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There is a word for what we call this kinda of photography...
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Just sayin'!
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No worries...I cropped it.
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But, seriously, look at my face.
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Dude, MOM, WTH...GET OUT!
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My sister didn't seem to mind the photo op did she? Look at her smile! Cheese!!!